Tuesday, December 1, 2015

And now a dry cough

With this second worst headache of my life (that's still going on) I've now developed a dry cough.  The last time I had a dry cough for any length of time, it turned out there was a  break in the proximal  catheter of my ventriculo-peritoneal shunt.  With the combination of a headache and a dry cough, if you look at my history I suppose I should be concerned.

However, I'm not.  I don't have the sense or feeling of anything poking me from the inside, like Edwin.  Thus, all I can think is - to use one of "their" words - all's stable with my shunt.  Besides, I'm "One of the Lucky Ones", I seem to hang on to these things far longer than the average of ten years.  I'm expecting my "new" shunt placed in 2013, to last 27 1/2 years.  Just like the one before it did.  I don't believe or expect anything less.

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